Transcript
Ezra Levant (0:00)
Hello, my friends. I was in Ottawa today for Tamara Leach's sentencing for her role in the trucker convoy. It was a very frustrating day for me, but at least there's no jail time. But they did get a sentence. I'll explain it to you in today's show, but first let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. That's the video version of today's podcast. And there's a certain thing I want you to see. Just how crazy the crush of people was outside the courthouse. It was sort of regime journalists versus citizen journalists pushing each other around. It was quite something. I was standing right in the middle of it. So if you don't have the Rebel News plus, you'll only hear it. I would really encourage you to get Rebel News plus to see it. Today is a visual show. For that part, just go to rebelnewsplus.com and click subscribe.
Jim Kerr (0:51)
You're listening to Rebel News Podcast.
Ezra Levant (1:01)
Tamara Leach is sentenced, but not to jail. It's October 7th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Judy Trinh (1:10)
Shame on you, you censorious.
Ezra Levant (1:22)
Hi, everybody. I'm back at our world headquarters in Toronto. I spent the day in Ottawa where Tamara Leach and Chris Barber were finally given their sentence. You know, it's been a three and a half year legal process for them both. The longest mischief trial in Canadian history. I'm very frustrated with the judge who, it seemed to me over the course of time sort of loved the attention, loved having a full courtroom, loved the banter, and was certainly in no rush for anything. She took two and a half months to come up with her ruling today for her sentencing hearing. I won't tell you the result right now. I will show you what I recorded on the scene. It was very interesting. Huge crowd was there of both mainstream media and more citizen journalists than I've ever seen in Canada before. I think you've heard me remark that citizen journalism has reached a real critical mass in the United Kingdom, especially with Tommy Robinson's big rally on September 13. What I saw in front of the courthouse today felt like the same critical mass in Canada. There were so many citizen journalists, some with just a simple cell phone, some with a little bit more gear. It was really exciting. In fact, there's a little bit of jostling with the regime media, the mainstream media, when basically citizen journalists decided, why should we wait for the fancy journalists to go first? We have our own questions and. And of course the legacy media don't like being dethroned. There were some a little bit of tussling, I won't lie. Let me show you what it was like today. I did a lot of live tweeting from the court but I don't know that if you want the minutiae the minute by minute you can go to my X account. But here's my report from the scene. As we've been here. I'm standing outside the Ottawa court. I'm going to turn around here. A huge crowd outside. A lot of journalists look at the wall of TV cameras. It's tough these days to understand who is with the mainstream media and who is the alternative media. One thing for sure, I don't know if you can see it but you can't really see it through the windows there. There are at least seven police right inside the vestibule and another seven police downstairs outside the courtroom plus two police in the courtroom. My math tells me that 16 different cops. What are they expecting will happen? One of the things the judge said repeatedly in her sentencing was that Tamara Leach and Chris Barber were completely non violent and encouraged others to be nonviolent too. And yeah, let me catch you up. What's happening now? We're right outside the courthouse minutes after Justice Heather Perkins McVeigh issued her sentences in the case of of trucker leaders Tamara Leach and Chris Barber. The prosecution had asked for astonishing sentences, the kind of sentences that murderers would get. Eight years for Barber and seven years for Bleach. The judge did not do that. She said that there was no basis for that and she gently chided Doug Ford's prosecutors. And remember that the prosecutors who have founded Samara and Leech and Chris Barber.
